goodbye my ‘six feet under’

I have been an avid Six Feet Under watcher. Tonight I will see the last episode and no doubt get a hint of what the future holds for all the characters who have seemed so much like real people in my life. I have been thinking about Brenda and how she will deal with the bitter rejections she seems to have received from Nate, her widowhood, and her parenting challenges which most likely will include the continued raising of Lisa’s daughter Mya (Nate’s first wife) and her own new baby soon to be. Ruth, The Mom, I know will survive as she seems to have discovered a deepening respect for her second husband, George, whom she had written off earlier as too crazy for her. She also seems to learn from life in spite of her dogged ritualistic personality so embedded in the traditional family.
The show has definitely been credited with teaching America how to face the issue of death and dying in our society, although the show unrealistically focuses on sudden death rather than the more ordinary and common death that is associated with old age and chronic illness which does not happen suddenly and without warning. What has drawn me to the show is the fact that the characters were allowed to develop and become fully human with all the faults and strengths and embarrassing experiences that happen, but perhaps not as often hopefully, to us all. I also think each show is handled with artistic integrity of a very high degree, something unusual for television. Each episode is more like a film than a made for television episode. This has been noted on a HBO documentary on the show but deserves further mention.
All the characters are treated with respect and dignity by Creator Alan Ball and the other writers of the show. None is a caricature of a person or stereotype and each one always surprises the viewer at the complexity of the human spirit and layers of emotion that dwell deep within each one of us. I loved the way the character who is the partner of the Fisher

well the end has come and gone and its not at all bittersweet… its just bitter. i wish they could stay. I did however love the last episode. it was beautiful, remarkable and made me teary eye’d. kudos to them. goodbye my six feet under i will miss you… bye bye my pretty billy, i’ll miss u the most. goodnight to the fisher’s, chenowith’s and the lovely diaz’z… u will be missed! BTW how many people loved the final song??? I do, i do !P